42 Pampering Beauty & Spa Gifts To Make

Bath & Shower Treats

1. Homemade Bath Jelly Recipe: Bath jellies can be made as luxurious home spa goodies or they can be packaged for the kids (set with toys inside). Great to give as gifts.
2. How To Make Bath Bomb Fizzies: A great video showing step-by-step how to make fizzing bath bombs.
3. Milk Bath Recipes To Pamper Yourself: Milk baths are luxurious and a nice treat to pamper yourself, makes skin silky soft. These can also be made in bulk and given as gifts in a jar–just omit the water and include directions with each jar.
4. How To Make Cupcake Bath Fizzies: The instructions include two recipes, one for the “cupcake” part and the other is for the meringue-like frosting.
5. Homemade Rose Bath Oil: Super easy to make.
6. Bath Cookies Recipe: This is an interesting recipe, you first cook a batch of bath cookies then add them to your bath after they’ve cooled.
7. Homemade Honey Bath Recipes: A few easy recipes.
8. 5 Homemade Bath Salts & Soaks: You can add as little or as much as you like to the bath, anywhere from 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup should be plenty.
9. Homemade Herbal Bath Bag Recipes: Herbal bath bags (also known as bath tea bags) make a lovely soaking bath that can be beneficial to your skin, ease stress and help soothe aches and pains.
10. Homemade Shower Spa Bags: Start the day with a pampered feeling by using shower spa bags.
11. Homemade Sea Salt Scrub Recipes: Sea salt is rich in natural minerals and regularly exfoliating your skin with salt scrubs is a pampering treat that can renew and condition your skin.
12. Homemade Bubble Bath: {Recipe}: Here’s an easy recipe for making an all-natural, homemade bubble bath that you can customize to your own preference by mixing favorite scents–also ditches harsh perfumes and chemicals that some commercial bubble baths use.
13. Summer Floral Bath Splash: Recipe: Use in baths and as a skin spritz refresher on hot summer days.

Gift Soaps

1. Remold Hotel Soap Bars: Grate several bars of hotel soap, add a handful of instant oatmeal, moisten with a bit of water, heat up the batch then mold the soap/oats mixture into soap bars using muffin tins.
2. How To Felt Soap: Learn how to felt a bar of soap, these make a really cool washcloth and soap in one.
3. Snowflake Gift Soaps: How To: Easy project!
4. How To Make Homemade Soap and How To Make Soap: If you ever wanted to learn how to make your own soap–here you go!
5. How To Make Soap Petals: Soap petals are simply silk flower and leaf petals dipped in soap. They are single use and look pretty sitting beside the sink.

Pampering Gifts

1. Homemade Sugar Scrub Recipes: Six different recipes.
2. Candy Cane Sugar Scrub – Recipe: Lovely!
3. Homemade Rose Dusting Powder Recipe: You want to be sure to use organic or pesticide free roses since the dusting powder will be applied to skin.
4. Herbal Foot Spray Recipe: Tuck this in with other spa gifts.
5. Herbal Steam Facial Recipes: Mix all dry ingredients together, package and add a tag with instructions on how to use.
6. How To Make Perfume: A great start if you want to delve into a perfume making hobby.
7. Homemade Rose Petal Vinegar Recipe: Ideas for use are as a facial splash, skin freshener (dilute with water), headache soother (soak cloth with vinegar, squeeze out, then place on forehead), shampoo rinse, bath soak.
8. 5 Homemade Foot Soak Recipes: Include a bag of marbles to place on the bottom of the foot bath to rub sore tootsies on.
9. How To Make Rose Water: Use as a facial toner or astringent, in your bath water or as a facial splash (refresher).
10. Homemade Chocolate Lip Gloss & Lip Balm Recipes: Here are two different recipes that moisturize lips nicely as well as taste delicious…chocolate anyone?
11. Homemade Lip Balm: Recipe: There are just three ingredients: beeswax, jojoba oil and peppermint essential oil (or whatever EO you prefer). Simple to make, just melt together then pour into your containers.
12. Homemade Hand Balm: Makes 12 mini-muffin sized balms and the tutorial includes plenty of pictures and instructions that walk you through the process.
13. Rosemary Herbal Hand Scrub: Recipe: Good for hand care but can also be used on elbows, heels of feet and any place that suffers from dry skin
14. Homemade Kitchen Hand Scrub: Recipe: The scrub is made with basic ingredients: Sugar, Kosher Salt, Lemon Zest, Olive Oil, Pure Lemon Extract (optional).
15. Floral Infused Olive Oil: Rich Beauty Aid: Did you know olive oil is a lovely (and natural) skin moisturizer? Here’s a way to make it more special…infuse it with flowers picked fresh from your garden!
16. Winter Hand Cream: Recipe: Store in little containers or jelly jars for nice gifts for a friend or for yourself.

Crafty Pleasers

1. Homemade Herbal Sleep Pouches: Here’s a nice & easy recipe for making a herbal sleep pouch that contains lavender, flax seed and lemon balm leaves, another herb that helps soothe and encourage sleep.
2. Home Remedy: Headache Soother Sachets: Always choose organically grown lavender (chemical free) when using as a health aide, you should have no problem find this in a bulk health food store.
3. How To Make A Microwave Heating Bag: These bags serve a dual purpose as you can also keep them in the freezer to use has a cooling pad or freezer pack when needed.
4. Dirty-Girl Washcloths & Spa Cloths: Free Knitting Patterns: All of the patterns are dishcloth designs, but flipping the purpose of them to personal use, great idea!
5. How To Make A Bath Towel Head Wrap: Two different designs, one similar to the Twisty Towel.
6. Stipple Quilted Hot Water Bottle Cozy: Tutorial: The design makes it easy to pop the hot water bottle in and out of the cozy while keeping it securely in place once it’s tucked inside.
7. Homemade Reed Diffusers: Reed diffusers are decorative air fresheners for the home that work with scented oils and reeds.
8. Fiesta Bath Mitt: {Knitting}: It knits up easily, has a crochet loop for hanging and would be perfectly sweet to give with a bar of homemade soap.

Updated: Originally Published December 15, 2008

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